Obama Adminsitration’s New National Security Strategy to Focus on Homegrown Threats; Says Terror is a Tactic not an Enemy

President Obama’s new National Security Strategy will stress that US military superiority must be matched by muscular diplomacy and all the tools of statecraft. For the first time, the government strategy document is likely to focus attention on the threat posed by homegrown, radical extremists.

“The president’s national security strategy explicitly recognizes the threat to the United States posed by individuals radicalized here at home,” Mr Brennan said Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The president’s strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic.”

The assertion that our enemy is not terrorism motivated by jihadist ideology is a new, and frankly, dangerous assertion by the Obama Administration. If America’s enemy is not terrorism or jihadists, as Brennan asserts, who or what is?